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East Baton Rouge's Graduation Rate Is Stuck in the 70s, Lowest Among Major Parishes
Louisiana's graduation rate has climbed to an all-time high of 85%. East Baton Rouge Parish, the state's second-largest school system, has not kept pace.
21 Louisiana Parishes Are at Their All-Time Highest Graduation Rate
Twenty-one of Louisiana's parishes posted their highest graduation rate on record in 2025. That is roughly 40% of all parishes with sufficient data, and it spans the state from rural northeast Louisia...
Only 7 of 74 Louisiana Parishes Have Recovered From COVID
Livingston Parish gained 232 students between 2019 and 2026. That makes it the most successful COVID recovery story in Louisiana. The second-best, West Baton Rouge Parish, added 168. The two parishes ...
Two-Thirds of Louisiana Parishes Are Now Majority-Minority
Seven years ago, Bossier Parish enrolled 22,876 students. White students made up 55.7% of that total. In 2025-26, white enrollment in Bossier has fallen to 49.2%, and the parish has joined a growing l...
Baton Rouge Loses 1,703 Students in One Year
For four years, East Baton Rouge Parish lost students the way a faucet drips. Between 2022 and 2025, the state capital's school system shed 217, 511, and 221 students in consecutive years. The decline...
Louisiana Lost 15,424 Students in One Year
For five years after COVID emptied classrooms across Louisiana, the losses came in waves that seemed to be slowing. Traditional parish enrollment fell by 19,459 in the pandemic year, then 8,688, then ...
Louisiana's White Student Share Falls to 40%
Seven years ago, nearly half the students in Louisiana's public schools were white. In 2025-26, that share fell to 40.2%, a 6.9 percentage point decline that reflects both a real demographic transform...
One in Eight Louisiana Students Now Attends a Charter School
In five years of comparable data, Louisiana's charter sector has added 6,914 students. Its traditional parishes have lost 32,171. Both facts describe the same state, the same years, and the same fundi...
Louisiana Has Lost Students Every Year for Seven Years
Of Louisiana's 74 traditional parishes with complete enrollment records stretching back to 2019, six managed to hold steady or gain students over those seven years. Six out of 74. Livingston Parish ad...